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Caffeine consumption and resting heart rate were also among the 19 risk factors suggested by a new review of diabetes research.

The resolution is so good that a golf ball would be visible from 15 miles (25 kilometers) away.

The finding of a baby dinosaur fossil in the Arctic implies that some dinos nested there, which was milder than today but not toasty.

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High in the Andes, thousands of meters above sea level, speedy hummingbirds defy near-freezing temperatures. These tiny flyers endure the cold with a counterintuitive trick: They lower their body temperature—sometimes as much as 33°C—for hours at a time, new research suggests.

There are more than 14,000 firefighters working across the state to contain around 25 major fires.

On 2 September, German Chancellor Angela Merkel revealed that Alexei Navalny, a Russian opposition politician, had been poisoned with a nerve agent “identified unequivocally in tests” as a Novichok—one of a family of exotic Soviet-era chemical weapons. Merkel, a chemist by training, did not reveal the nature of the tests, […]

By studying how a seaweed keeps itself clean, researchers discovered an enzyme that breaks down the bond between clothing and difficult-to-remove body soils and odours.